And the Talon.

A shot of the finished cockpit. The chair and "brain"?raised and lowered on camera.

Once the fibreglass seats?were molded, they got framed in steel and wired up with props, lights?and e

We also got some moulds cut to form the acrylic panels for the seats. As all the pieces were?generate

You can imagine how pleased we were to open the packing crates to find these.

I then developed these illustrations into a 3D model which was sent to a 5 axis CNC milling company i

EDI was so organic on the outside that Jonathan wanted the interior to be organic and?futuristic as w

Because the Klegecell skinning material was so expensive, it was helpful to get surface area calculat

The EDI, fully skinned.

A shot of the Talon starting to come together.

For some of the tighter curves where the Klegecell wouldnt form, we filled the area between?the forme

Here’s a shot of the pivot point for the wing. The Talon had articulated wings, and the?point-loads a

The skin and internal structure was made from Klegecell, an expanded foam product which is?very light

To construct the planes we used modern boat building techniques. Using the 3D model we?cut sections t

As well as a cockpit buck for EDI, we built a breakaway cockpit which allowed the camera to?get in fo

To articulate the movements of the plane,?a gimbal controller?sat near the?director in what looked li

As well as the full size planes we built cockpit bucks to put on a gimbal.

The finished cockpit on set.

The cockpit design started as a 3D massing model, based on reference and ergonomics. This?was then gi

Edi was a smaller aircraft and broke in about 5 pieces.?Edi travelled to three 3 places:?It was shot

We started out constructing it using the lightest possible methods. But to be shot on the aircraft ca

The Talon had to be broken up into 20 pieces for transportation. It was shot in the studio at Fox;?ou

Construction costs for the planes were:?EDI?approx?AU$1.2M,?The Talon approx?AU$1.5M.?They took aroun

Edi’s original cockpit design was too small to fit a person, so the exterior design had to be?enlarge

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The interior cockpit of both Talon and EDI were designed in Sydney.

The digital modelling and design of the aircraft?exteriors started in L.A. Cockpits and undercarriage

Deeply ensconced in a top-secret military program, three pilots struggle to bring an artificial intel

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